Quantum Leap (TV Series 1989–1993) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error Scientist Sam Beckett finds himself trapped in time--"leaping" into the body of a different person in a different time period each week. Creator: Sam leaps into himself as a 16-year-old boy to help his high school basketball team win the championship. He also tries to help the other members of his family including his father who died from ... 9.3 Sam leaps into a bar with a bartender that's more than he appears. When Sam looks into a mirror, he sees his own reflection. In the future, they realize that Sam has leaped into himself, they search ... 9.1 Still involved in his brother Tom's life, Sam leaps into Vietnam to either save his brother or ensure the success of the team's mission.

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You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Won 2 Golden Globes. Another 16 wins & 43 nominations. See more awards » Videos Edit Storyline Doctor Sam Beckett led a group of top scientists into the desert to research his theory that a man could time travel within his own lifetime. Unfortunately, in order to save his funding, he was forced to enter the accelerator prematurely and vanished. He then found himself in someone else's body with partial amnesia. His only contact from home is Al, a holographic image only he can see and hear. Setting right things which once went wrong, Sam leaps from life to life, hoping each time that this is the final leap home. Written by Kevin <Kibble@vm.temple.edu> 26 March 1989 (USA) See more » Also Known As: A través del tiempo See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia The show's theme song was revamped for the final season. However, the original version of the theme song was used for airings of that season's episodes in the syndicated versions. See more » Goofs In the first season, Sam mentions having a sister named Katie.

In the 2-part pilot "Genesis", Sam mentions that she married a Naval Officer named Jim Bonney. However, in the first season episode "The Kamikaze Kid", which hinges on Sam stopping a sister from marrying an abusive boyfriend, Sam mentions that Katie married and abusive alcoholic, later named "Chuck" in the "Leap Home" episode. It is very likely that Katie married Jim after leaving Chuck. Also, in "Disco Inferno," Sam mentions that he has a brother named Tom and that he died in Vietnam. He mentions this again in the episode "Animal Frat" before finally seeing Tom again in "A Leap Home." See more » Quotes Al : There are five stages of love. The first is denial, then the second is sex, then there's acceptance, then there's divorce... and then there's more sex, if you're lucky. Sam : Who wrote this textbook, you or Zsa Zsa? Put right what once went wrong and give this show a movie! 27 August 2000 | by Op_Prime (Ardmore, PA) – See all my reviews Quantum Leap was a fantastic science fiction series.

Past time travel shows had the main character(s) going back (or forward) in time as themselves. Quantum Leap was so special mainly because Sam is leaping INTO people and experiencing their lives first hand. This made for some very interesting stories like when Sam leaps into a woman or a black man. Of course, having a hologram from his own time (Al) guiding him on his adventures was another key component to the show. One complaint I've always heard about the show is: if Sam puts right what once went wrong, wouldn't he be altering the future? The answer is no. Sam doesn't leap into anyone famous (often) and so he would not be altering the future dramatically for many. And whenever he does leap into someone famous, everything works out the way history recorded it. NBC made a huge blunder cancelling this series, especially cancelling it on a cliff hanger. And why won't Universal make a movie? Fans want it and Don Bellisario has expressed an interest in doing one. So come on. Put what right what NBC did wrong and make a movie. 82 of 91 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you?

Yes The 10 Best Sci-Fi Shows On Netflix Streaming Right Now The 10 Best Sci-Fi Shows On Netflix Streaming Right Now Andrew Husband best sci-fi shows on netflix right now More FOX Last Updated: December 28th In the world established by Joss Whedon’s famously canceled Firefly television series, the word “shiny” shares a connotation with the word “cool.” So whenever Captain Malcolm “Mal” Reynolds or ship’s mechanic Kaylee Frye utters it in conversation, they’re commending a particular person, place or thing for its awesomeness. That, or they’re being sarcastic — a necessary human trait thankfully not forgotten in the massive fictional future Whedon created. Either way, the co-opted adjective is all too perfect for assessing the 10 best sci-fi shows on Netflix streaming right now. Anything ascribed to the genre of science fiction typically includes elements like imagined futures, advanced technologies, and life on faraway planets whose constellations are unrecognizable to our own. Despite these pertinent characteristics, however, sci-fi is often cobbled together with fantasy — both for the ease of categorization, and for shows whose plots benefit from their hybridity.

Hence why Netflix combines them into the TV Sci-Fi & Fantasy subgenre . Not everything there is straight sci-fi, but after a little digging, a hearty helping of beloved programs and unknown nuggets will come to the fore for you to watch. So here are the “shiniest” shows that are must watch viewings on Netflix. Related: The 50 Best Shows On Netflix Right Now, Ranked The Twilight Zone (4 seasons) Unlike Farscape, the Rod Serling classic didn’t always adhere stringently to the genre boundaries of sci-fi. Elements of fantasy and horror were also thrown into the mix on The Twilight Zone, which made for a rather complex and difficult-to-categorize show. Depending on the episode and its writer, however, the program’s best and most memorable entries almost always featured at least some significant amount of recognizable genre components. Be they miniature aliens terrorizing a single human victim or imagined aliens whose supposed invasion sends the town into a violent panic, The Twilight Zone resides appropriately at the top of Netflix’s sci-fi offerings. Shiniest Episode: One of the series’ most famous episodes, “Eye of the Beholder” delivers one of Serling’s trademark bits of social commentaries with a significant twist at its conclusion.

Add To Netflix Queue Ascension (1 season) With its tangible basis in the historical reality of President John F. Kennedy’s space-driven administration, the six-part Syfy miniseries Ascension imagines a scenario in which a secret mission was launched by the United States during the ’60s to colonize another planet. This narrative conceit allows for a story that is both retro and futuristic, a pseudo “Mad Men in space” in which a murder sends the ship into a tailspin just over 50 years into its 100-year mission. Of course, like any well-written science fiction television show, Ascension offers a few good twists to tease its viewers along until the very end. Some, like the reality (or lack thereof) of the ship itself as easy to foretell, while others remain hidden. Shiniest Episode: Because of the ’60s throwbacks, Ascension‘s futurity isn’t all that weird until you reach the fourth episode. That’s when the true nature of Christa Valis (Ellie O’Brien), a child born on board the ship, is revealed — both to the audience, and to the other inhabitants on the USS Ascension.

Read More Add To Netflix Queue Quantum Leap (5 seasons) One of the larger distinctions on this list is the divide between episodic sci-fi and sci-fi dedicated to world builiding. Farscape especially and Ascension somewhat adhere to the latter, whereas The Twilight Zone informs the former sub-category. So too does Quantum Leap, the popular late ’80s/early ’90s NBC series in which Dr. Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) travels through spacetime with the help of the project’s leader, Admiral Al Calavicci (Dean Stockwell) and the supercomputer Ziggy (Deborah Pratt). Due to the technology’s limitations, Beckett is only able to travel to times and places that existed within his own lifetime, but that didn’t stop showrunners from occasionally spicing things up. Shiniest Episode: Such was the case in the episode “Killin’ Time,” in which two stories were told — Beckett’s usual throwback into spacetime, and his subject’s (the person into whom Beckett had leaped) flash forward to 1999.

Beckett and Al’s futuristic setting was only ever mentioned in passing, but when “Killin’ Time” came along, audiences finally got to see where the Project Quantum Leap team came from. Syfy Eureka (1 season) Picture The Andy Griffith Show, but with a Mayberry-like town whose residents are all certifiable and government-funded geniuses whose experiments often explode in their faces, and you’ll arrive at Eureka. Thanks to a post-World War II deal between the U.S. government, a newly-formed corporation called Global Dynamics, and people like Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer (and their families), the hidden town of Eureka was turned into a community-sized R&D department. U.S. Marshall Jack Carter (Colin Ferguson) unwittingly becomes Eureka’s new sheriff when he and his daughter stumble upon the town in the first episode, and the show quickly turns into a cross between The X-Files, Gilmore Girls and Law & Order.

Shiniest Episode: The first season’s 12th episode, “Once in a Lifetime,” jumps several years into the future after one of the scientists at Global Dynamics is allowed to tamper with the series’ MacGuffin, “the artifact.” Already a twisty, bendy show, this jump lets Eureka stretch its sci-fi legs further than ever before. So much so that the episode is able to surpass the expected characteristics of traditional sci-fi and venture off into some rather dramatic territory. NBC Earth 2 (1 season) Years before Whedon’s Firefly made its brief appearance on Fox, NBC’s Earth 2 imagined a similar future in which most humans have left Earth due to the inhabitable condition its previous tenants had left it in. The year is 2192, the surviving population lives aboard space stations that orbit the dying planet, and young children are developing and succumbing to a fatal disease known only as “the syndrome.” Since many think the disease occurs due to the lack of an Earth-like environment, Devon Adair (Debrah Farentino) decides to take her afflicted son, Ulysses (Joey Zimmerman), to a habitable planet 22 light years away.

Due to government interference, their ship crash lands on G889, which is inhabited by several native species — some friendly, some not. Shiniest Episode: One of the show’s most memorable elements is Tim Curry’s performance as Gaal, a strange human whom the colonists meet in the second episode, “The Man Who Fell to Earth (Two).” Gaal, who claims to be an astronaut, is a rather peculiar creature (in more ways than one), and his recurrence in several early episodes made the series all the better — cancellation notwithstanding. Add To Netflix Queue Dark Matter (2 seasons) You’re trapped aboard a semi-functioning ship in the depths of space. You have no idea who you are. You’re all alone, except for an assortment of fellow human beings who are asleep in stasis. So you wake them up for answers and for the company, only to discover that they have no idea who they are either. No, this isn’t the upcoming sci-fi film Passengers with Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt. It’s a Canadian series called Dark Matter that aired on the Space channel.

And since its six main human characters cannot remember their names or pasts, they name each other numbers One through Six (in order of who woke up when) and set about trying to discover who they are, why they’re there and who’s coming after them. Shiniest Episode: Episode five features what are best described as zombies. On a spaceship. Killing people and trying to kill the Dark Matter main cast. That’s pretty much all you need to know about this otherwise fantastic hour of sci-fi horror. Add To Netflix Queue Star Trek: The Original Series (3 seasons) Frankly, almost half of this list could consist of Star Trek shows. Star Trek: The Animated Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and, hell, even Star Trek: Enterprise are all available to stream on Netflix. All of these have their merits (except for Enterprise), but the William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy-starring original series is where it all began. To admit to watching one or all of the other programs cited above, but not Star Trek: The Original Series, would be a crime against yourself and the rest of sci-fi fandom.

This is where Gene Roddenberry’s vision first got its start on broadcast television, after all. Shiniest Episode: Volumes of books, let alone printed articles and blog posts, have been written about which episodes of Star Trek are the best. At this point, practically every single one has been included on one of these lists. Yet “Space Speed,” the first season’s thrilling introduction to Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalban) and his fellow super men and women, sits atop the rest. For not only does it stick to the show’s sci-fi laurels, but it also gives the audience a brief glimpse into the future past of Roddenberry’s idealistic universe. Add To Netflix Queue Firefly (1 season) A great deal has already been said about Firefly in this roundup, though in this author’s opinion that’s not nearly enough. Whedon, who’d already garnered acclaims for his Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel series, ventured into the sci-fi genre with his beloved Western hybrid in which the future looked a lot like Earth 2. Of course, Whedon’s humans had made it much farther into the void of space than their predecessors ever did, and there was no alien life to be found.

Just space, more space, and lots of human characters whose frontier life mirrored historical reports from the American West. Except they drove spaceships and spoke Mandarin. Shiniest Episode: Like Star Trek, Firefly‘s dedicated fans have dissected and re-dissected every episode there is to determine which one is the best. Unlike Star Trek, Firefly only has 14 episodes to choose from. That being said, “Out of Gas” is a great thriller about the perils of living, working and almost dying in the outer reaches of space. NBC SeaQuest DSV (3 seasons) Despite his character Brody’s consternation about the sea in Jaws and Jaws 2, veteran actor Roy Scheider returned to the ocean for one of the best and most imaginative sci-fi series of the ’90s — SeaQuest DSV. In what was basically a deep ocean-based version of Star Trek, Scheider’s Captain Nathan Bridger led the crew of the SeaQuest, a large submarine he’d helped design for scientific and exploratory purposes, on missions of discovery across the planet. The first season is fantastic, though unfortunately the second and third seasons suffered due to NBC’s interference, which in turn enraged Scheider and others on the show.

Shiniest Episode: “Treasures of the Tonga Trench,” the fourth episode in season one, highlights the work of John D’Aquino as Lt. Benjamin Krieg, a business-hungry crew member aboard the SeaQuest who discovers what appear to be rare gems on the ocean floor. His discovery leads to a series of frightening but beautiful encounters with an entirely new form of undersea life. That, and the final revelation about his adored “gems” provides the episode with its final, stinky, smelly touch. Add To Netflix Queue The X-Files (9 seasons) Like The Twilight Zone, the episodic nature of The X-Files let the show cross genres from time to time. Yet Chris Carter’s conspiracy theory-driven program always came back to its core — that extraterrestrials were real, and Special Agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) were going to find them. Even so, this provided the show with an interesting dichotomy between its “mythology” episodes and its monster-of-the-week entries . Both have their merits, but when it came down to hardcore sci-fi, the former was where The X-Files excelled more often than not.

Shiniest Episode: Then again, whenever the show was able to play around with this format, the results were often surprising and pleasing. Take “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space,” a fantastic one-off episode in which the mainline narrative about aliens and government conspiracies was able to expand with an out-of-character, odd and ultimately delightful hour of television. Quantum Leap (TV series) | Maveric Universe Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Quantum Leap (TV series) Template:Infobox television Quantum Leap is an American television series that was broadcast on NBC from March 1989 to May 1993. The series was created by Donald Bellisario , and starred Scott Bakula as Dr. Sam Beckett , a scientist who becomes lost in time following a botched experiment. Dean Stockwell co-starred as Al , Sam's womanizing, cigar smoking sidekick and best friend. He appeared to Sam as a hologram that only Sam and a select few others could see or hear. The series features a mix of comedy, drama and melodrama, social commentary, nostalgia and science fiction, which won it a broad range of fans.

It is particularly notable for the end of each episode, where Beckett leaps into his next persona (the story of the next episode), usually uttering "Oh boy!". ==Show summary== In the series' first episode, Sam appears in the past with no memory of who he is or how he got there. Referred frequently throughout the series as a "swiss cheese brain", Sam's partial amnesia prevents him from remembering most of the details of his own life; all he knows is that he's not who everyone in the past seems to think he is. Fortunately Admiral Al Calavicci ( Dean Stockwell ), Sam's best friend, appears to him as a hologram and explains that Sam is the victim of a time travel experiment that went "a little caca". Now Sam is lost in time, and his colleagues are having difficulty retrieving him and bringing him back to his own time. Contents Edit Series creator once said an interveiw,David Bellisario,he got the idea for the series while movies like Heaven Can Wait (1978 film) , a remake of the 1941 film Here Comes Mr.

Jordan .Bellsario felt the premise handle right and put a science fiction setting,could work.Irwin Allen's Time Tunnel. This was a show about a secret government funded time travel experiment in which a young researcher sends himself back in time in an effort to prevent the project's funding from being cut. This, the two men travelling through time, and the efforts to retrieve them are the only things this show has in common with Quantum Leap (which only has One man travelling through time, his companion is firmly rooted in the future.). In the Time Tunnel , time travellers Anthony Newman and Doug Phillips unfailingly arrived at historical events and desperately tried to influence events based on their knowledge of the outcome. They always failed. This is a show where the time travellers would find themselves at the Roman coliseum one week, and in Napoleon's army the next, Then tripping to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It is drastic time changes like this that Don Bellisario wanted to avoid when he imposed the 'within his own lifetime' rule. He felt the huge differences in time settings were distracting and unrealistic.

:-).Quantum Leap just like that other time travel show, Voyagers ,where Phineas Bogg with the assistance of companion Jeffrey Jones are time travellers who find themselves trying to fix history, or to 'put things right' when 'people become displaced in time and find themselves a half-step away from a totally different destiny' [Harry and Wally]. In one episode, Franklin D. Roosevelt became a movie director and it was up to Phineas and Jeffrey to set him on the right course to the presidency of the United States. This is another show that would find its heroes travelling to far-flung places and times, a plot device that Don Bellisario wanted to avoid. Dean Stockwell (left) and Scott Bakula (right) as Al Calavicci and Sam Beckett Sam soon learns that the man he replaced in the past (or "leaped into", in the show's parlance) is an Air Force test pilot who was about to be killed during a botched flight. Al explains that their best theory to what's going on is that "God, time, faith, or whatever" wants Sam to save the man (as well as his wife and unborn child) before he can "leap out".

Sam does so and disappears, but instead of returning to his own time he leaps into yet another person's life and once again tries to "put right what once went wrong". In each episode, Sam leaps into a new host, often finding himself in dangerous, embarrassing, or otherwise compromising positions, and with Al's help (and that of his colleagues, who have access to information from the future), he tries to right some wrong or misfortune in the life of that person or someone close to them. Several characters are referred to throughout the series, but rarely (if ever) actually appear. Ziggy, the artificial intelligence that runs the project and supplies Al with information to help figure out the purpose of Sam's leaps, only appears in "The Leap Back", the same episode in which Al's girlfriend Tina appears. Gooshie, the project's head programmer who has chronic halitosis and is reputedly having an affair with Tina, appears in six episodes including both the pilot and the finale. Dr. Beeks, the project psychiatrist, is also frequently mentioned, but only appears in two episodes.

===Conclusion=== Edit Throughout the series, Sam believes that God, or some other higher power, is controlling his leaps, sending him to times and places where he is needed. In the series' final episode, he encounters a mysterious bartender who insinuates detailed knowledge of Sam's "mission" and his true identity. Because this bartender (or someone who looks exactly like him - both parts played by Bruce McGill ) was also present in Sam's first leap, Sam comes to believe he might actually be that higher power, though the man neither confirms nor explicitly denies this. The bartender helps Sam remember that he built Project Quantum Leap exactly because he wanted to put right what once went wrong and makes him realize that he himself has control over his leaps. The bartender then asks Sam where he wishes to leap to next. Sam replies by saying he wishes to return home but he cannot as he still has a wrong to put right for Al, by letting his first wife Beth ( Susan Diol in her second appearance in that role during the series) know that Al is still alive in a POW camp in Vietnam . Sam then promptly leaps out and does so. The show's epilogue states that Sam never returned home.

This final episode was in fact intended to be an end-of-season cliffhanger but after the series was not renewed for a sixth season it was revised to function as a series finale . Template:Citation needed The original ending had Al's Vietnam-era picture "leaping" into a portrait of Al sitting with Beth and their four adult daughters. In both the alternate ending and the episode as broadcast, the leap effect eventually recedes into darkness and text on the screen informs the viewer that "Dr. Sam Becket never returned home." Note that "Beckett" is spelt with only a single T. ===Physics of leaping=== Edit Al explains the concept of the experiment to Sam in the first episode during his initial period of amnesia using a simple analogy. Using a piece of string, Al explains that one end represents Sam's date of birth while the other represents Sam's date of death. Connecting the two ends together will, in effect, form a loop. The looped string is then scrunched up in one's hand and various parts of the piece of string will inevitably intersect and touch each other. By leaping at the intersections to a different section of the string, Sam can travel to a different date within his own lifetime.

The leap seems instantaneous to Sam but Al explains in the pilot episode that he spent a week traveling in time between the moment he leaped out of the Air Force test pilot and the moment he leaped into his next host. In early episodes, it was unclear whether Sam's mind was leaping into other people's bodies or whether his mind and body leaped together. Later episodes make it clear, however, that Sam's entire body has traveled through time and that "the illusion of [his host's] physical aura" surrounds him, making him look and sound like that person with whom he interacts in the past, as well as to Al. Likewise, Sam's counterpart in the future is surrounded by a similar aura and looks and sounds like Sam to people at the project. Sam is also able to transcend the physical limitations of his host, being able to see after leaping into a blind pianist , walk while sharing the existence of a legless Vietnam veteran , swim after leaping into a monkey, and retain the strength of an adult man after leaping into a child, an elderly woman, and so on.

During the time in which Sam occupies a host, the host is simultaneously transported to the time travel facility where Sam made his initial leap - effectively switching places with them. It is never explicitly stated what happens to the people Sam has leaped into after he leaves, but it is assumed that the person return to their timelines with amnesia of the events. Conversely, in the episode "Roberto!", Sam suggests that the people he leaps into remember being in the waiting room at Project Quantum Leap. ===Sam's memory=== Edit At the beginning of the series, Sam has almost total amnesia, not even knowing his own name, or recognizing Al. Complex technical skills (such as medical and scientific training and his knowledge of foreign languages), as well as historical knowledge, seem to survive intact, yet he is unable to recall most of the details of his own life. The appearance of these holes in his memory while other regions are left unaffected is what the character refer to as a "Swiss cheese" effect. Sam slowly starts to remember more personal information during the early episodes of the series, such as the fact that he had an older brother who was killed in Vietnam and a younger sister who eloped and married an abusive alcoholic.

While reviewing his memory, Sam mentions that his sister now lives in Hawaii and is married to a Navy man, Jim Bonnick, a character from the Magnum P.I. series. He also seems to recognize Al's references to his various colleagues. In the first episode of the fourth season, Sam briefly returns to his own time, at which point his memories from before he first leaped begin to return but his experiences during the last four years quickly begin to fade. Sam calls this a "reverse Swiss cheese effect". Sam's memory gets Swiss cheesed anew when he leaps again. ===Kisses with history=== The show occasionally featured "kisses with history" scenes where Sam briefly encounters a famous historical figure or is tangentially involved in a historically significant event, but which is unrelated to the episode's story. For example: * In "Star-Crossed", Sam has to get his future fiancée ( Teri Hatcher ) to reconnect with her father, who is a colonel in the army. On June 17, 1972, Sam tries to bluff his way past the security guards in the lobby of the Watergate Hotel. He is ejected but Sam manages to find a door with a piece of tape over the latch.

He and his future wife sneak in but the guard, noticing that their car is still there, does a check of the outside doors and reports a break-in . * In "How the Tess Was Won", Sam helps a young Buddy Holly to write the song " Peggy Sue ." * In "Double Identity", Sam causes the Northeast Blackout of 1965 when he asks someone to plug in a 1000 watt hair dryer at a fraternity house at 111 Erie Drive, Buffalo (New York) at 5:15 EST on November 9, 1965. * In the episode "Camikazi Kid", Sam demonstrates how to do the moonwalk to a boy called Mikey . * In "Play it again Seymour", Sam leaps into a man who looks a lot like Humphrey Bogart and in 1953 New York runs into a young Woody Allen . * In "Good Morning, Peoria", Sam helps Chubby Checker to perfect the Twist . * In "Thou Shalt Not...", Sam performs the as-of-yet uninvented Heimlich Maneuver on a choking man who is addressed as Dr. Heimlich .

* In "Sea Bride", a voice can be heard over the ship's intercom saying, "Calling Mrs. Thatcher, Mrs. Margaret Thatcher ". * In "Leap Of Faith", Sam recounts to a young boxer a scene from the film Rocky ; the boxer's locker door is tagged S. Stallone . * In the episode "The Boogieman", Sam's stories help inspire a young aspiring horror writer, Stephen King . * In "Rebel without a Clue", Sam pleads with Jack Kerouac to talk a young woman out of pursuing a dangerous life on the road. * In "It's a Wonderful Leap", Sam, as a cab driver in 1958, advises a 12-year-old Donald Trump that investing in New York City real estate would be a good way to get rich, and that there will one day be a crystal tower on 57th Street and 5th Avenue . * In "Lee Harvey Oswald", Sam had thought he was to prevent the assasination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy , but instead successfully prevented First Lady Jackie Kennedy from being shot. * In "Goodbye Norma Jean", Sam inspires the title of the last film Marilyn Monroe ever completed.

In Sam's original timeline she died before The Misfits was made. * In "Dr. Ruth", Sam leaps into Ruth Westheimer to deal with a case of sexual harassment in the past. While defending a victim of sexual harassment from her harasser, a woman later revealed to be Anita Hill stops to listen to what Sam is saying. * In "The Leap Between the States", Sam leaps into his own great-grandfather during the American Civil War , who is charged with helping runaway slaves escape through the Underground Railroad . The house servant and conductor of the stop has the last name "King", and Al explains that he is the ancestor of Martin Luther King, Jr. . * In the episode "Memphis Melody", where Sam leaps into Elvis Presley , a young saxophonist from Hope (Arkansas) in a music contest is addressed as "little Billy C ".

===Opening narration=== Edit With the exception of Magnum PI ,Quantom Leap is the only quality series that Donald Bellasario has involved.Not Jagg or NCIS.Those might stay tv and might in reruns,but no way are as watchable or as quality as the two other shows mentioned.Magnum was often a character study of the main star and freind,with a action and Quantum Leap was basically Here Comes Mr.Jordan the Series. Edit Observations; It is ashame Sam Bechett could in the final episode find away to bring himself back.Too bad some hasn't drawn up plans for a tv movie to wrap up this series.Nothing Donald Bellisario has done is as good.Not Jagg and certainly not NCIS. * Julie Barrett: The A–Z of Quantum Leap. Boxtree, London 1995. ISBN 0-7522-0628-1 * Louis Chunovic: Quantum Leap Book. Boxtree, London 1993. ISBN 1-85283-866-3 * Hal Schuster: The Making of Quantum Leap. HarperCollins, London 1996.

ISBN 0-06-105438-0 ===Novels=== Edit Ace Books published a series of novels due to the show's popularity, beginning in 1992 and continuing until the year 2000. While not considered canon , the novels were met with approval from Bellisarius Productions and Universal Studios. Being non-canon, the novels tended to deviate from series norms and also attempted to provide explanations for conventions that went unexplained in series episodes. For example, in Quantum Leap: The Novel (a.k.a. Carny Knowledge), Sam is depicted as exchanging bodies with subjects he leaps into, rather than being surrounded by the person's aura as explained on the show. The novel also states that Sam used brain cells from himself and Al in the creation of Ziggy, and that this "link" was the reason why Ziggy could transmit an image of Al to Sam's mind. This is also used to explain why Al can recognize changes in the present due to Sam's actions while others remain unaware. * Julie Robitaille: The Ghost and the Gumshoe. CORGI BOOKS, London 1990.

ISBN 1-85283-397-1 . Re-published in U.K. by BOXTREE LIMITED, London 1994. (Novelization of "Play It Again, Seymour" and "A Portrait of Troian") * Ashley McConnell : Quantum Leap: The Novel. ACE, 1992. ISBN 0-441-69322-9 . Re-published in the UK as Carny Knowledge. Boxtree Limited, London 1993. ISBN 1 85283 871 X * Ashley McConnell: Too Close for Comfort. ACE, 1993. ISBN 0-441-69323-7 . * Julie Robitaille: The Beginning. BOXTREE LIMITED, London 1994. ISBN 1-85283-392-0 . (Novelization of the pilot episode) * Ashley McConnell: The Wall. ACE, 1994. ISBN 0-441-00015-0 . * Ashley McConnell: Prelude. ACE, 1994.

ISBN 0-441-00076-2 . * Melissa Crandall : Search and Rescue. ACE, 1994. ISBN 0-441-00122-X . * Ashley McConnell: Random Measures. ACE, 1995. ISBN 0-441-00182-3 . * L. Elizabeth Storm: Pulitzer. ACE, 1995. ISBN 1-57297-022-7 . * C. J. Henderson and Laura Anne Gilman : Double or Nothing. ACE, 1995. ISBN 1-57297-055-3 . * Barbara E. Walton: Odyssey. BOULEVARD, 1996. ISBN 1-57297-092-8 . * John Peel : Independence. BOULEVARD, 1996. ISBN 1-57297-150-9 . Re-published in the U.K. as Leap Into the Unknown.

BOXTREE LIMITED, London 1996 ISBN 0-75220-137-9 . * L. Elizabeth Storm: Angels Unaware. BOULEVARD, 1997. ISBN 1-57297-206-8 . * Carol Davis: Obsessions. BOULEVARD, 1997. ISBN 1-57297-241-6 . * Sandy Schofield ( Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch : Loch Ness Leap. BOULEVARD, 1997 ISBN 1-57297-231-9 . * Melanie Kent: Heat Wave. BOULEVARD, 1997 ISBN 1-57297-312-9 . * Christo Defillipis: Foreknowledge. BOULEVARD, 1998 ISBN 0-42516-487-X . * Mindy Peterman: Song And Dance. BOULEVARD, 1998 ISBN 0-42516-577-9 . * Carol Davis, Esther D.

Reese: Mirror's Edge. BOULEVARD, 2000 ISBN 0-42517-351-8 . === Comics === Template:Primary sources Quantum Leap : A Leap To Di For (2009) Writer/Director Christopher Allen and RACSO Motion Pictures, present this not for profit fan film, continuing the journey of Sam Beckett after the events of the final television episode. Synopsis: Sam Beckett has leapt into a 26-year-old American male on a visit to Paris, France. Finding himself with a beautiful young British girl, all seems well until Sam discovers the exact date... August 30, 1997, twenty-four hours before the death of Princess Diana .<ref> Template:Cite web </ref> Filmed on location in Indianapolis, Indiana. Premiered at the 20th anniversary Leapback convention in Hollywood, California, March 27, 2009.

With an international FREE Internet release April 18, 2009.<ref> Template:Cite web </ref> With a cast consisting of: Deborah Pratt , Beth Horn , Joshua Ramsey, Ed Ernstes, Niki Hurrle Warner, Ladonna Pettijohn, Chelsea Marie Rogers, David Briggs, Nathan Bechtold , and many others.<ref> Template:Cite web </ref> ==Home video releases== Edit In the 1990s, a few of the episodes were released on VHS . In the United States , these included "The Pilot Episode" ("Genesis"), "Camikazi Kid", "The Color of Truth", "What Price Gloria?", "Catch a Falling Star", "Jimmy", "The Leap Home", "Dreams", and "Shock Theater". In the United Kingdom , they were mostly released in pairs, selling as "The Pilot Episode" (on its own), "The Color of Truth" and "Camikazi Kid"; "The Americanization of Machiko" and "What Price Gloria?"; "Catch a Falling Star" and "Jimmy"; "The Leap Home" and "The Leap Home Part II - Vietnam"; and "Dreams" and "Shock Theater".

1998 brought the DVD release of "The Pilot Episode", containing only the episode "Genesis" and chapter selection. For many years, despite many requests from fans, the official word from Universal was that more releases (such as season box sets) would be very unlikely due to the high level of music recordings used in episodes, creating numerous copyright problems. This was resolved with the DVD releases in 2004, which replaced much of the library music with generic music (causing a protest by fans in the process). The Region 1 version of Quantum Leap: The Complete First Season came out in North America on June 7, 2004, containing all of the episodes as they were originally broadcast (except for "Play It Again, Seymour"), along with some bonus features. Universal Studios chose not to obtain the necessary music rights for all of the music for use in the Quantum Leap: The Complete Second Season Region 1 DVD. Some were replaced with generic instrumental music. This, as mentioned above, outraged many fans and inspired a letter-writing campaign, demanding such a modification be corrected.

The most criticized instance Template:Citation needed was the removal of Ray Charles 's " Georgia on My Mind " from the season two finalé, "M.I.A.", during a scene in which the holographic Al dances invisibly with his first wife Beth. Subsequent Region 1 DVD releases continued to feature music replacement, but Universal did begin including a disclaimer on the package indicating such (this disclaimer also began to appear on other releases of various other Universal series, such as Magnum, P.I. and The A-Team ). Quantum Leap: The Complete Third Season and Quantum Leap: The Complete Fourth Season also have extensive music alterations in order to keep licensing costs low. All seasons have been released on DVD in the UK; Season 1 was released on November 8, 2004 (music intact), Season 2 on October 31, 2005 (music intact), Season 3 on December 12, 2005 (music intact),Season 4 on June 26, 2006 (music partially intact) and Season 5 on December 26, 2006 (music unknown).

All five seasons are available on DVD in Australia; Season 1 was released on May 2, 2005 (music intact), Season 2 on February 7, 2006 (music intact) and Season 3 on June 7, 2006. Quantum Leap: The Complete Fifth season was released on DVD November 14, 2006 in North America, with "Blueprints from the original Time/Imaging chamber set" as the only extra. This release was not affected by music replacement. ===DVD releases=== Universal Studios Home Entertainment has released the entire series on DVD in Region 1, 2, and 4. {| class="wikitable" border="1" Time-travel shows using a similar premise: * Journeyman , another show about a man uncontrollably travelling through time, putting right what once went wrong. * The Time Tunnel , a show about a time-travel experiment gone wrong and time-travellers being stranded in time. * Being Erica , a show about a woman time-travelling to put right what went wrong in her own life.

* Seven Days , a show about American NSA time-travellers putting right matters of national security that once went wrong. * Tru Calling , a show about a doctor going back one day to save patients lives, and also fix things that went wrong during the day. * Early Edition , a show about a man receiving the next day's newspaper, and using the information to put right what is about to go wrong. * Voyagers! , a show about a time-traveller ensuring that history unfolds as it is supposed to. * Doctor Who 1000+ images about Quantum Leap on Pinterest | Blind faith, Dean o'gorman and Tim o'brien Forward "October?" In the begining of "The Leap Home" episode in Quantum Leap, Scott Bakula as Sam Beckett as himself finds himself in a corn field just like the one on his father's farm. Sam smells the air and wonders, is it October. The answer will be posted next month. See More Quantum Leap (TV Series 1989–1993) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This!

Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error Scientist Sam Beckett finds himself trapped in time--"leaping" into the body of a different person in a different time period each week. Creator: Sam leaps into himself as a 16-year-old boy to help his high school basketball team win the championship. He also tries to help the other members of his family including his father who died from ... 9.2 Sam leaps into a bar with a bartender that's more than he appears. When Sam looks into a mirror, he sees his own reflection. In the future, they realize that Sam has leaped into himself, they search ... 9.1 Still involved in his brother Tom's life, Sam leaps into Vietnam to either save his brother or ensure the success of the team's mission.

9.1 ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ Review: Razor Sharp Season 12 Premiere is Just the Start of a Bold, Brilliant Year 5 January 2017 4:30 AM, +01:00 | Indiewire Television a list of 46 titles created 08 Oct 2013 a list of 46 titles created 16 Aug 2014 a list of 38 titles created 08 Jan 2015 a list of 22 titles created 15 Aug 2015 a list of 48 titles created 23 Nov 2015 Title: Quantum Leap (1989–1993) 8.1/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Won 2 Golden Globes. Another 16 wins & 43 nominations. See more awards » Videos Edit Storyline Doctor Sam Beckett led a group of top scientists into the desert to research his theory that a man could time travel within his own lifetime.

Unfortunately, in order to save his funding, he was forced to enter the accelerator prematurely and vanished. He then found himself in someone else's body with partial amnesia. His only contact from home is Al, a holographic image only he can see and hear. Setting right things which once went wrong, Sam leaps from life to life, hoping each time that this is the final leap home. Written by Kevin <Kibble@vm.temple.edu> 26 March 1989 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Zurück in die Vergangenheit See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia Throughout the series, Sam Beckett often encounter implied younger versions of various celebrities and other figures (Buddy Holly, Woody Allen, Michael Jackson, Stephen King, Sylvester Stallone, Bill Clinton and others). Writers had proposed scenes for others, but the series was unable to get proper authorization from the people or their estates to depict them. See more » Goofs For the famous "mirror reflections" in which Sam sees who he leaps into, the series used the old trick of a dual set with a clear glass in the "mirror".

Scott Bakula would stand on one side and the actor playing the person he leaped into on the other. If you look really close at the glass, you can see sometimes Scott Bakula's reflection. (Especially if the mirror is near a source of light like sunshine). See more » Quotes Al : Don't tell me, let me guess, you've been invited to a costume party and you're going as a baked potato.

Question: In which early 90's TV series did scientists Dr. Sam Beckett and Admiral Al Calavicci appear?
Answer: Quantum Leap